LOS ANGELES — Southern California has more to look forward to in 2012 than ending its two-year post-season ban. Next summer the Trojans will move into the $70 million, 110,000-square-foot John McKay Center.

It will replace the ancient Heritage Center which had only 70,000 square feet. The new facility will feature a 32,000-square-foot weight room, more than three times the size of the old one at 9,600-square-foot weight room. The training room will be 18,000 square feet. The current one? It’s 2,700.

“Right now if you look at USC, there are a lot of great things going on,” coach Lane Kiffin said. “Starting with the John McKay Center. It’s ahead of schedule and moving along. All of our student athletes will be housed there, and it’s going to be really special.

“If you look at USC over the years, the one thing we didn’t have is we were behind facility-wise. So this allows us to catch up with other people and hopefully move past the majority of them.”